GIS_Software

March 22, 2007general, Human Geography, Navigation

Australia Discovered By Portuguese 250 Years Before British

Score one for old maps. An Australian author named Peter Trickett has discovered a map that pretty well proves Australia was discovered around 1520, which is way before James Cook […]
March 21, 2007Data, general, VirtualEnvironments

Residential Wi-Fi spots Mapped

Slashdot is reporting an interesting article that claims AOL and Skyhook Wireless have mapped “the majority of residences in the U.S. and Canada” along with their wireless service (or lack […]
March 21, 2007general, LBS, Navigation

GPS-based Workforce Management launched by AT&T

While taking a break at the Dev Summit, I was catching up on tech news and noticed that yesterday AT&T launched their new GPS-based workforce management service, TeleNav Track, which […]
March 20, 2007general, GeographyBlogs, GIS_Software

Directions podcast on MapInfo Acquisition

Much like Direction Media’s discussion on the Intergraph acquisition, they bring up quite a few ideas in their weekly podcast around the MapInfo acquisition. Definitely worth a listen.
March 20, 2007general, Navigation

GPS navigation to help blind

An Itilian company is working on a field test of a navigation system for the blind that is based on a Symbian based cell phone, a bluetooth GPS, and a […]
March 9, 2007Cartography, general, Remote Sensing

Listening to the world…cool and funny

A little sonic cartography for your Friday listening pleasure. Ever wanted to know what the elevation of a trip from Tokyo to Rome sounds like, curious as to what satellite […]
March 8, 2007Cartography, general, Remote Sensing

LIMA – Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica

I’m not sure when this actually was actually first made available, but today I saw the press release about the USGS’ Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica (LIMA), which was generated […]
March 8, 2007general, VirtualEnvironments

Sony’s PS3 upcoming online services to feature 3d virtual world

At the Game Developers Conference yesterday, Sony offered a preview trailer of its new 3d virtual world, which will be part of its PS3 “Home” online services. The trailer has […]
March 1, 2007general, VirtualEnvironments

Shameless Plug – Our immersive visualization lab featured in ArcNews

The Winter 2006/2007 issue of ArcNews arrived today, and we were excited to see that WVU GeoVirtual Lab’s newly-installed CAVE system with a custom connector for ArcScene and ArcGlobe, was […]
February 28, 2007general, VirtualEnvironments

New 3D virtual world Kaneva getting ready to launch

While catching up on virtual world and metaverse news, I found this interesting little article about a startup virtual world called Kaneva, which is in beta testing. Its creator, Christopher […]